# swarms of flies
so many flies that it looked like a cloud
# that devoured them
The flies made the Egyptians almost as unhappy as they would have if they had eaten the Egyptians. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
# destroyed them
"overran their land" or "went everywhere in their land"